[gsavit]

You're definitely right, in its current form Runway is aimed most squarely at mid to large sized teams. But, we do think there's still value for smaller teams - and in fact, a couple of our early customers are on the smaller side. Although some of the coordination and process overhead isn't there, there's still value in creating a source of truth and reducing context-switching between tools during releases. And, it's really valuable to get a framework like Runway in place earlier on, to better position a team for growth! We envision helping small teams out early on in a lighter-touch way and then helping them mature.

At the moment our main tier is $400/mo, but we're exploring other options for those teams that are smaller and/or at earlier stages.

Re: external clients - This is a really interesting use case that we've chatted to some agencies about. The way we've been thinking about users and roles, it would make a lot of sense to give scoped access to clients and allow them to participate in specific areas as needed!

[danpalmer]

+1 to the external clients. Not sure if it makes sense for it to be agency driven with external client stakeholders, or company driven with external agency developers/PMs. I'd imagine the former would be more common but could be quite a different solution for the latter.

At the moment, $400/mo is more than the savings calculator suggests we can save, but we're currently 1 full time, 1 part time iOS engineer, 1 release a month, 2 apps (same codebase, whitelabelled). I think $400/mo for ~10 devs makes sense, at that scale it's similar in cost to our other collaboration and CI tools, but I suspect we'd have a hard time justifying it until we're at that sort of scale.

Are there costly features you can cut that could make it, say, $100 for < 5 people perhaps? Something that opens it up to small teams who can then "grow up" on the platform?

[gsavit]

Based on what we've heard from agencies, it seems it could be driven from either side: sometimes the agency handles the tooling and that's actually some of their value-add (having everything in place already), sometimes it's all BYO tools on the part of the company/client. Anecdotally, the former seems more common, like you say.

We hear you on the math! Our pricing is a work in progress and there's more we'll do on the lower end of the scale for sure. We're hesitant to cut/bundle the product too much but it's a likely option.

If you and your team are interested in trying us out, let's definitely chat though!